Posted on 02/10/2026 8:52:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
If Helen of Troy were meant to be an African woman, Homer might have told his readers that fact in his telling of the greatest and most timeless epic poems in Western history – The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Her appearance being so contrary to everyone else in the Greek world certainly would have warranted a mention. This much, at least, should be obvious to everyone.
Imagining Helen’s appearance to be that of an African woman is just farcical, if one has any respect for the source material at all. It would make no sense for a high-budget production to take diligent care in correctly portraying the minutiae about Greek armor, weapons, landscapes, and triremes, for example, only to say “screw it, let’s make Helen of Troy an African lady.”
But no less than famed writer/director Christopher Nolan has been accused of such absurd pandering in these past weeks. Rumors have been spreading widely and loudly that he has cast Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his new film treatment of Homer’s The Odyssey.
Now, at this point, the story has all the hallmarks of a hoax. To my knowledge, no one in the production has verified that she would be playing this role. While some actors have their parts credited already at IMDB, many others are cited as having roles in the film without citing which characters they will play. Ms. Nyong’o is among these.
It’s clear that she has been cast in the film, but it seems unlikely that she would be playing Helen. After all, Helen is not a critical player in The Odyssey – [mild spoiler alert] after having run off with her now-dead Trojan lover and fueling a decade-long war in Troy in the events that led to The Iliad,
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Talk about a great manager, I'm having trouble managing just one wife... errr... Oh, wait a minute: maybe she's managing me. Hey, strike my previous comment, Candor7.
Adding, not pinging.
Rage bait, got it.
I want to know how they are going to work in a lesbian or transgender angle with this new “Helen”.
Coming soon: George Washington...Starting LaVar Burton .. 😀
In my view, pretending an historic person was a minority is more racist than denigrating them because they were a minority.
Wit' extra-large Trojanz ...
Shaka was a tribal warlord, a ruthless killer whose method of war was the extermination of neighboring tribes.
Of course he was white.
So was Ghengis Khan.
Wait until Hollywood makes a movie of the first guy to sell saleves in Africa was a white guy got to be a box office hit for sure.
Homer refers to Helen as “White armed” and “fair haired”. I have just finished reading THE ILIAD and The Odyssey.Two of my favorite books for the last 66 years. got hooked in 1960 High school Literature class.
“Shaka “ He was actually q***r as a three dollar bill.
**So was Ghengis Khan.**
LIke Egyptian Omar Sharif played him?
How about John Wayne?
I do not know what to say. Having never slept with Shaka or met any one who claimed to have done, I do not know whether he was queer or not.
Nor do I much care whether he was queer or not. LOL.
Revisionist history is the point....do it when it suits a politically correct meme or end?
SHAKA WAS A WHITE MAN WHO WAS QUEER...sounds like a good meme to me. Nice revision of history.Anyone can do it.I am sure you could get a grant from USAID to make a movie about it.The queer angle would tie it up real good.
/s
She has to be playing it, why else would they hide this in the website?
I’ve been told and particularly for UK films if you don’t give significant roles to minorities they can’t get funding.
And only racists object!
Shaka being queer is in the book THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS by Donald R. Morris A history of South Africa.
You forgot to add the fact she was lesbian.
What’s so shocking.
Any commercial, television show, movie or series has to include the mandatory
1. Black judge (the wise and non-corrupt ones)
2. Black Electrical, Computer, Math whiz, teacher, doctor, nurses, carpenters, ... all must be the honest and so skilled one that is wise beyond their years... quotes the occasional Shakespeare or Plato like ...of course that’s taught to blacks but the white kids only want money and to hang with the cool black kids.
3 Every criminal must lead back to a White, Chrisitian, Heterosexual, MALE that loves ‘Merica...
4. Every commercial has to have mixed race parents, children or both. The dumb one was/is/will be the white confused knucklehead and the
5. I never knew how many Black Vikings, Black British Royalty, Black explorers, Black Astronomers, Black inventors and how little the White men have done for advancing the culture ... I lost all the symphonies, paintings, sculptures that blacks have achieved...... whites have none.... It’s not like Whites invented Calculus.
It’s all such BS
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